Main overview

Take more traffic and sales to your site and earn from vendor commissions

Multi-vendor e-commerce is a new idea of an e-commerce platform that is becoming more and more popular on the web, just think of websites such Etsy, Amazon and Ali Express, which are setting the new trend for online shopping. This offers customers a higher number of products from different suppliers and therefore a wider selection.

If you have an e-commerce you might consider the possibility to make it a multi-vendor shop. Owners of multiple product vendor websites have the huge advantage of getting passive earnings because they earn a commission on each sale. Consider, the more vendors in your websites, the more sales, the more you can earn without lifting a finger. In addition to that, the more vendors, the more traffic is brought to your site and the more its positioning improves.

It’s like a virtuous circle, vendors take traffic and sales, your site becomes stronger and it gets a better and better positioning, then more and more vendors are interested in selling in your platform and in benefiting from endlessly increasing traffic. And it’s all easy earning for you!

NOTE: By using the plugin in combination with YITH Frontend Manager, in few clicks, you can create a frontend dashboard on your site that vendors can access to manage products, orders, and commissions of their shop.

PayPal MassPay is now a deprecated service. The service has been restricted to only those users who had previously enabled.

"Terms and conditions" fields for vendors in Registration and "Become a vendor" pages

Vendors can manage media through WordPress gallery

Create a WordPress menu with the list of all vendors

Administrator can assign more products to single vendors in a massive way

Administrator can access vendor's dashboard through user switch

Thanks to the shipping module, vendors can: New

create their shipping zones and apply the related shipping methods

apply a cost based on the shipping

apply an additional cost to each new product added to cart

show refund and shipping policies

set the country from where products are shipped

Compatible with Aelia Currency Switcher: all amounts are automatically converted.

Plugin integrations

With "Integration" between two or more of our plugins, we mean that the features provided by these products combine, offering further value and options than when they are individually used.
All the plugins listed in this section are not included in YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor. In order to take advantage of a specific integration, you need to purchase and activate the premium version of the related plugin.
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With the Aelia integration enabled, all the prices shown in your marketplace will be converted to the currency in use.

YITH Auctions for WooCommerce

YITH WooCommerce Auctions allows you to sell the items in your store using an auction system.
Each and every offer your users make are automatically processed until the auction is closed: the winner will receive an email inviting him to purchase the item; if they don't, you have the option to keep the auction closed or open it again.

The combined use of YITH Multi Vendor and YITH Auctions allows you to offer an auction system to all the vendors in your store.
Vendors can create their own auction type product, and will be able to handle:

price

backup price

required amount for a rise

auction length

a chance to automatically schedule the next auction for each product

YITH Composite Products for WooCommerce

Using YITH Composite Products for WooCommerce you can create products made of several components, allowing users to be free to choose the components they are interested in straight from the product page.
The integration with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor will allow vendors the opportunity to offer "composite" products in their stores, by creating and configuring components that will only be visible for their products.

YITH Desktop Notifications for WooCommerce

YITH Desktop Notifications for WooCommerce enable notifications on the desktop every time an action related to the shop is recorded on the site.
The notifications can be enabled for the following actions:

each purchase made

each purchase associated to a specific product

a refunded order

an order status change

a product status turns into "Out of stock"

In combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, you can enable the desktop notifications for the orders related to the vendors.
The notification can be enabled when:

a new order has been created

the order turns into a specific status

YITH Frontend Manager for WooCommerce

YITH Frontend Manager for WooCommerce adds a frontend dashboard to your site through which the administrator and shop managers can manage orders, products, and coupons as they would do from WordPress dashboard.
The combined use with YITH Multi Vendor allows enabling the frontend dashboard also for all the vendors: your site will offer an elegant and professional management interface replacing the classic WordPress dashboard.

YITH Live Chat

YITH Live Chat is a plugin that allows you to integrate a live chat system in your website.
By installing this plugin on your multi-store platform, each vendor will be able to enable/disable the live chat for their profile.
Customers will be able to interact with the vendor using the chat popup windows they will find on the vendor details page.

YITH PayPal Payouts for WooCommerce

YITH PayPal Payouts for WooCommerce allows you to send payments automatically to any receivers you set up. The payments are calculated based on a percent commission you set for each receiver and applies to all orders of your store.
If installed with YITH Multi Vendor you’ll be able to split the payments of each single order between the admin and the right vendors as soon as the order is completed. The amount is set in the vendor commission settings and it restricts to the vendors’ products only.

YITH Product Shipping for WooCommerce

With YITH Product Shipping you can apply different shipping costs for the products of your shop depending on the product type added to cart, the quantity or the user's country (just to mention a few examples).
The integration between these two plugins allows vendors to apply custom shipping costs to their products rather than the applying the general shipping costs of the shop.

YITH Product Size Charts for WooCommerce

YITH WooCommerce Product Size Charts allows showing a size chart on one or more products of your shop and giving further information about the selected product to your users.
Thanks to the integration with YITH WooCommerce Multi vendor, each vendor can create their own size charts and link them to one or more of their products at a later moment.

YITH Stripe Connect for WooCommerce

YITH Stripe Connect for WooCommerce allows splitting credit card payments made on your store among your business partners immediately and automatically.
The integration with Multi Vendor allows the admin to split the price of one or more products between the vendor and the admin immediately after the checkout and based on the commission rate that you’ve agreed with them.

YITH WooCommerce Account Funds

YITH Account Funds allows all users to have a virtual wallet for their purchases. Users make a deposit and the amount gets converted in virtual funds that can be used to purchase from your store, avoiding any kind of transaction before the purchase.
The integration with YITH Account Funds allows you to send vendors’ payouts into their digital wallet, by simply crediting the amount in their account funds.

YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search

Using YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search you can add a search bar to your website, which will allow users to search via ajax for specific content in your website, searching through posts, pages, and products.
The integration between these two plugins allows users to enter the vendor name and instantly obtain a list of their products.

YITH WooCommerce Badge Management

Using YITH WooCommerce Badge Management you can create custom badge you can apply to products in your shop. There are three types of badges: text, CSS or images.
The integration between these two plugins will allow each vendor to create badges (visible only to them) they can apply to their products.

YITH WooCommere Booking

YITH WooCommerce Booking allows an advanced management of a booking system for the products of your shop. Once you have configured the prices, services, and availability, the plugin will automatically manage the product depending on the user choice.

By using the plugin in combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, each vendor can create and sell "Booking" products in his/her shop.
The vendors can manage the "booking" products just like the super admin with two exceptions:

they can associate only the new services they have created in their shop

they can associate only the type of person the super admin have created

Finally, the vendors have access only to the bookings registered for their products.

YITH WooCommerce Bulk Product Editing

YITH WooCommerce Bulk Product Editing is the plugin that allows you to edit quickly one or more details for an unlimited number of products at the same time.
The integration between these two plugins allows vendors from the same shop to mass edit their products using the features of YITH WooCommerce Bulk Product Editing.

YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode

With the use of YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode, you can show or hide the price and/or “Add to cart” button for one or more products of your shop. If hidden, you can provide a form through which users can send possible requests.

When combined with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, each vendor will be able to perform the following actions:

Hide the price and/or the "add to cart" button

Enable an information request form on the product details page

Add a custom button in case the price and/or "add to cart" are hidden

Deny the opportunity to review products to all users or only unregistered ones

YITH WooCommerce Custom Order Status

Using YITH WooCommerce Custom Order Status you can create custom statuses you can then assign to orders in your shop. You may also edit the default WooCommerce ones.
This plugin can be used in combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor: general store admins can create custom order statuses and each one of them can be later used while handling their orders.

YITH WooCommerce Coupon Email System

YITH WooCommerce Coupon Email System is the plugin that allows generating automatic coupons when specific conditions occur, such as the fulfillment of the purchase threshold or the registration on the site.
Using it in combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, global store admins will offer vendors one or more types of coupons: they will decide whether they want them to be automatically generated for their products or not.

YITH WooCommerce Deposits and Down Payments

YITH WooCommerce Deposits and Down Payments lets the admin enable a deposit payment on some or all products of the shop.
If combined with Multi Vendor, the vendor will be able to get a commission on deposit orders as well.

YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts

YITH WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts is a plugin conceived to create advantageous purchase conditions for your users. After configuring the discount rules for your shop, the system will dynamically apply them if the required discount conditions are fulfilled.
Using these two plugins combined allows you to apply custom discount rules on all of the products of one or more vendors in your shop.
Create your discount rule and select the name of the vendor: the price of all his products will be affected by this rule, in case all of the required conditions are met.

YITH WooCommerce Email Templates

YITH WooCommerce Email Templates is an extension that allows you to perform advanced customization on standard WooCommerce Emails that are sent to your customers.
You can use a different template for each email, choosing from a pool of 4 offered by the plugin.
Integrating these two plugins allows you to further customize the layout of all emails sent using YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor.

YITH WooCommerce Eu Energy Label

YITH WooCommerce Eu Energy Label is a plugin designed for those of you who need to highlight the energy class your products belong to.
The integration with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor allows each vendor to pick the energy class for each of their products.

YITH WooCommerce Membership

YITH WooCommerce Membership is a plugin that allows you to organise the content of your site into plans and make it accessible only to users who have paid for it.
With this plugin, you can offer your users a wide selection of products in exchange for a cost.
Using these two plugins in combination, you will offer vendors the chance to create one or more plans that may include their products.
Access to this content is restricted to subscribers.

YITH WooCommerce Name Your Price

YITH WooCommerce Name Your Price is used when you want to offer users the chance to choose the amount they wish to pay for a selected product, allowing a minimum and a maximum amount.
In combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, each vendor can create pricing rules that will only apply to the products he owns.

YITH WooCommerce One-click Checkout

With YITH WooCommerce One-Click Checkout users can skip the checkout process once the billing info is added.
The combined use of these two plugins allows generating commissions for the vendors also when the purchases are made through the one-click checkout.

YITH WooCommerce Order Tracking

YITH WooCommerce Order Tracking allows you to enter shipping data for each order, in order to allow users to track the status of their products
Integrating these two plugins allows each vendor to enter the shipping detail for each one of their orders.

YITH WooCommerce Pdf Invoice and Shipping List

YITH WooCommerce PDF Invoice and Shipping List allows you to automatically generate an invoice in PDF format for each registered order in your shop.
When the plugin is used in combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, the automatic generation of invoices will be disabled. The only way to create a new document, invoice or shipping document, is manually.

YITH WooCommerce Product Add-Ons

YITH WooCommerce Product Add-Ons allows you to configure additional options that will be added to one or more product in your shop.
For each action, it's possible to choose a name, an image and a price, which will add up to the basic ones the product has.
The integration between the two plugins allows, in a multistore shop, vendors to create advanced options groups for their products.
Each vendor can create global, category or single product options groups.
All options groups created by vendors won’t show on products that don’t belong to them.

YITH WooCommerce Product Bundles

YITH WooCommerce Product Bundles is an extension conceived to create bundles with the combination of some products of your shop. You can assign an ad-hoc price to the bundle or a price given by the sum of the single elements contained in the bundle itself.
Thanks to YITH WooCommerce Product Bundles, you will offer each vendor the chance to create "Bundle" products you can then sell on your store.
Just like admins, vendors will be able to set up their "Bundle" products and include their own products in them.

YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote

Thanks to YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote you can offer users the chance to ask for a quote for one or more products in your shop.
Once the request is received, you can process your offer and send it via email.
Users can accept the offer and will be automatically redirected to the cart where they will find the exact agreed price.
Thanks to its integration with Multi Vendor, the request will be forwarded to the owner of the product. The global administrator will receive the request only for products not related to any vendor.

YITH WooCommerce Role Based Prices

Using YITH WooCommerce Role Based Prices you can dynamically change the price of the products in your store, increasing or decreasing it based on the role a certain logged in user has.
When used with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, vendors can create pricing rules that will only affect their own products.

YITH WooCommerce Sequential Order Number

YITH WooCommerce Sequential Order number allows giving orders a sequential numeration and solve one of the most annoying problems on WooCommerce shop, having a numeration for both orders, posts, products or any other custom type.
If combined with Multi Vendor, not only orders but also vendor’s suborders will get a dedicated sequential numeration.

YITH WooCommerce Sms Notifications

YITH WooCommerce Sms Notifications allows you to automatically send notification texts towards admin and/or users, to communicate the changed status of an order.
By integrating these two plugins users will still receive only one text (sent by the global administration) while every vendor will have the chance to choose which order status they want to receive text notifications for.

YITH WooCommerce Subscription

YITH WooCommerce Subscription allows generating recurring payments for your products. Have your customers join a subscription plan with a payment cycle of your choice and many other options.
The integration with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor allows generating vendor commissions also on every renewal order.

YITH WooCommerce Surveys

YITH WooCommerce Surveys is a plugin that allows you to create surveys for your site and use the information collected this way for statistical purposes. Each survey can be shown both on the product page and the checkout page.
When used in combination with YITH WooCommerce Multi Vendor, every vendor gets the chance to create custom surveys that can be shown within the product details pages.

YITH WooCommerce Waiting List

YITH WooCommerce Waiting allows users to subscribe to a waiting list and be notified when the product is back available for purchase.

The integration between these two plugins allows vendors to:

Disable the "Waiting List" function for one or more of their products

Monitor his products waiting list

Manually send a message to all people in the waiting list, notifying that the product is back available

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FAQ

Here you can find some frequently asked questions about this plugin. If you can't find a reply to your doubts, ask a question: we will reply in a very short time

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Is it possible to set a different commission for each vendor?

Yes, you can either set a custom percentage commission by vendor and by product.

How can I create a page on my site with the list of all the vendors?

You can use the shortcode [yith_wcmv_list]. You can find all the attributes on this page of the documentation.

Can I verify vendors before they start selling?

Yes, the plugin has the option to enable the vendor manually rather than being automatically entitled to sell.

Can I ask for a fee to vendors that want to sell products on my site?

Yes, you can require a sign-up fee to users that want to become vendors on your e-commerce. You can learn more about this matter through this article.

Is it possible for the admin to edit the vendor’s store page?

Yes, you can find the list of possible changes in this section of the plugin documentation.

Can I hide vendors’ names from the shop page?

Yes, the plugin has options to let you choose where to show vendors’ names on WooCommerce pages.

Are shipping fees managed by the site admin or by vendors?

It depends on your needs. If you want vendors to manage shipping costs for their products independently, you can enable the specific module available in the Add-ons section of the plugin panel. For further details about this module, you can refer to this section of the documentation.

What are the payment methods supported for automatic payments of the commissions?

Is it possible for the vendors to print their shipping lists and invoices?

Is it possible to set a limit to the products that vendors can add/sell?

Yes, from the plugin settings, you can set the maximum number of products that vendors can publish. This is a global setting that applies to all the vendors. On the contrary, if you want to limit the number of products by single vendors, you can use YITH WooCommerce Membership in order to create membership plans with different product limits and assign the plan to the related vendor.

Can vendors add products only from the backend or also from the frontend?

Vendors can add and manage their products from the backend through their reserved area. Yet, it is possible to let them manage products from the frontend by integrating YITH Frontend Manager.

How are orders for multiple vendors handled?

Each time a new order is generated, the vendor receives a summary email with purchased products. Orders in the backend will be available for the admin, as a unique order with a suborder for each vendor. Vendors will receive suborders concerning only products from their own shop.

Is it possible to pay commissions by bank transfer? If so, where can vendors enter their account details?

Yes, vendors can enter their own bank account information in their profiles through the specific field. After the admin has paid the commission through his/her bank, he/she will need to mark the commissions as paid from the Commissions tab.

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